Gender Violence And Criminal Justice In The Colonial Pacific

Author : Kate Stevens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350275522

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Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific by Kate Stevens Pdf

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space where men and women narrated their own story and at times challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases, Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with cases of sexual assault.

Author : Emily S. Burrill,Richard L. Roberts,Elizabeth Thornberry
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780821419281

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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial by Emily S. Burrill,Richard L. Roberts,Elizabeth Thornberry Pdf

Elizabeth Thornberry is a doctoral candidate in African history at Stanford University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Lizzie Seal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030874889

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Gender, Crime and Justice by Lizzie Seal Pdf

This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies.

Author : Aletta Biersack,Margaret Jolly,Martha Macintyre
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760460716

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Gender Violence & Human Rights by Aletta Biersack,Margaret Jolly,Martha Macintyre Pdf

The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. ‘This is an important and timely collection that is central to the major and contentious issues in the contemporary Pacific of gender violence and human rights. It builds upon existing literature … but the contributors to this volume interrogate the connection between these two areas deeply and more critically … This book should and must reach a broad audience.’ — Jacqui Leckie, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago ‘The volume addresses the tensions between human and cultural, individual and collective rights, as played out in the domain of gender … Gender is a perfect lens for exploring these tensions because cultural rights are often claimed in defence of gender oppression and because women often have imposed upon them the burden of representing cultural traditions in attire, comportment, restraint or putatively cultural conservatism. And Melanesia is a perfect place to consider these gendered issues because of the long history of ethnocentric representations of the region, because of the extent to which these are played out between states and local cultures and because of the efforts of the vibrant women’s movements in the region to develop locally workable responses to the problems of gender violence in these communities.’ — Christine Dureau, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Auckland

Author : Venessa Garcia,Patrick McManimon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742566453

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Gendered Justice by Venessa Garcia,Patrick McManimon Pdf

Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence. The book focuses primarily on the role of gender, but also considers socio-economic status, race, age, education, and the relationship between the victim and criminal. Illustrated with case studies throughout, the book introduces major themes, such as the social construction of gender and victimology, as well as topics such as the portrayal of intimate partner violence in the media and how it shapes our understanding of violence.

Author : Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo,Reece Walters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781351761482

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Southern Criminology by Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo,Reece Walters Pdf

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing criminology’s long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to Lombroso’s theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering criminology’s colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler societies drawn into the criminal justice system; analysing the ways in which the sociology of punishment literature has also been based on Northern theories, which assume that forms of penalty roll out from the Global North to the rest of the world; and making the case that the harmful effects of eco-crimes and global warming are impacting more significantly on the Global South. The book also explores how the coloniality of gender shapes patterns of violence in the Global South. Southern criminology is not a new sub-discipline within criminology, but rather a journey toward cognitive justice. It promotes a perspective that aims to invent methods and concepts that bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of knowledge, more befitting of global criminology in the twenty-first century.

Author : Victoria E. Collins
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Crime and
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1138056235

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State Crime, Women and Gender by Victoria E. Collins Pdf

This book extends the discussion of violence against women to include the role and extent of crime and violence perpetrated by the state and fuses topical debates in state crime, victimology and feminist criminology.

Author : Rosalva Resendiz
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1626618283

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Gender, Crime and Justice by Rosalva Resendiz Pdf

The anthology Gender, Crime, and Justice: Critical and Feminist Perspectives provides feminist and critical perspectives on crime, justice, and human rights. The readings survey gender socialization as it pertains to criminality. They examine inequality within the patriarchal system with the primary focus on the subjugation and oppression of the gendered body. Gender, Crime, and Justice introduces students to concepts associated with gender ranging from equality to violence. It engages them in in-depth examinations of crimes of sex and the discourse on sexual autonomy. As effective studies of gender must be inclusive, the reader examines the socialization of both boys and girls and explores various ways gender affects women and men in a society that values heteronormative masculinity. Rather than immersing the reader in statistics, the book takes a conceptual approach by addressing topics such as a gendered view of violence, prostitution as a gendered crime, and traditional gender attitudes towards violence against women. Gender, Crime, and Justice is well suited to classes in gender, women's studies, criminal justice, and sociology.

Author : M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000225242

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Sexual Violence in Intimacy by M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö Pdf

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned in much of the world. Bringing together international and interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark, New Zealand, the United States, and beyond illuminate cross-cultural differences and commonalities. Methodological debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial challenges are addressed. Finally, a range of policy and intervention approaches—including art, state rhetoric, health care, and criminal justice—are explored. This book provides much needed scholarship to guide policymakers, practitioners, and activists as well as for researchers studying gender-based violence, marriage, and kinship, and the legal and public health concerns of women globally. It will be relevant for upper-level students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, psychology, women’s studies, social work and public and global health.

Author : Timothy P. Foley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017610176

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Gender and Colonialism by Timothy P. Foley Pdf

Author : Eunjung Kim
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373513

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Curative Violence by Eunjung Kim Pdf

In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and to understand how nonmedical and medical cures come with violent effects that are not only symbolic but also physical. Writing disability theory in a transnational context, Kim tracks the shifts from the 1930s to the present in the ways that disabled bodies and narratives of cure have been represented in Korean folktales, novels, visual culture, media accounts, policies, and activism. Whether analyzing eugenics, the management of Hansen's disease, discourses on disabled people's sexuality, violence against disabled women, or rethinking the use of disabled people as a metaphor for life under Japanese colonial rule or under the U.S. military occupation, Kim shows how the possibility of life with disability that is free from violence depends on the creation of a space and time where cure is seen as a negotiation rather than a necessity.

Author : M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429322038

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Sexual Violence in Intimacy by M. Gabriela Torres,Kersti Yllö Pdf

"Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned in much of the world. Bringing together international and interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as individual suffering best understood in cultural and institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys from India, Africa, Pacific Islands, Denmark, the U.S. and beyond illuminate cross-cultural differences and commonalities. Methodological debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial challenges are addressed. Finally, a range of policy and intervention approaches - including art, state rhetoric, health care, and criminal justice - are explored. This book provides much needed scholarship to guide policymakers, practitioners and activists as well as for researchers studying gender-based violence, marriage and kinship, and the legal and public health concerns of women globally. It will be relevant for upper-level students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's studies, social work and public health"--

Author : David Armitage,Alison Bashford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137001641

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Pacific Histories by David Armitage,Alison Bashford Pdf

The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania. It providing chronological coverage along with analyses of themes such as the environment, migration and the economy; religion, law and science; race, gender and politics.

Author : Eve S. Buzawa,Carl G. Buzawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319567211

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Global Responses to Domestic Violence by Eve S. Buzawa,Carl G. Buzawa Pdf

This volume addresses the varied response to domestic violence in a comparative, international context. The chapters are laid out in a consistent format, to cover: the nature of the domestic violence problem, theoretical explanations, the criminal justice response, as well as health care and social service interventions in each country. The intent of the book is to provide an introduction to the attitudes and responses to domestic violence in various regions, to provide meaningful comparisons and share information on best practices for different populations and regions. There are considerable variations to domestic violence approaches across cultures and regions. In some places, it is considered a “private” or “family” matter, which can help it perpetuate. At the same time, the United States’ approach to domestic violence has been criticized by some as being too focused on the criminal justice system, rather than other types of interventions which aim to keep families intact. This comprehensive work aims to highlight innovative approaches from several regions, important cultural sensitivities and concerns, and provide analysis to identify the strengths and weakness of various approaches. This work will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as related fields who deal with domestic violence and violence against women, including sociology and social work, and international justice. Practitioners and policymakers will also find it informative.

Author : Gaby Zipfel, Kirsten Campbell,Regina Mühlhäuser, (eds.)
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789385932922

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In Plain Sight by Gaby Zipfel, Kirsten Campbell,Regina Mühlhäuser, (eds.) Pdf

In the mid 1970s, at the peak of the women’s movement, feminist activism and research opened the door to questions that are still pressing today. While sexual violence has gained public awareness and become a subject in academic debate, efforts to understand and strategies to prevent this form of violence remain inadequate. Who are the perpetrators? How is sexual violence tied to other forms of violence? What are the consequences for individual victims and societies? Compiled by the International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC), this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding wartime sexual violence. Its enquiry employs four key relationships: War/Power, Violence/Sexuality, Gender/Engendering and Visibility/Invisibility. Through these, the authors identify gaps in existing knowledge to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the field. This volume is the result of long-standing cooperation. The International Research Group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’ (SVAC) is a network of interdisciplinary scholars and NGO experts founded in October 2010. Sociologists, philosophers, historians, literary and legal scholars as well as NGO professionals from Europe, the US, Asia and Africa bring together empirical and theoretical studies focusing on sexual violence in different theatres of armed conflict. The group compares source material and promotes the systematic development of research questions and methods.